Katherine E. Tapp, Attorney

Katherine is an Attorney with Kightlinger & Gray LLP’s New Albany, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky offices.
She has been a practicing attorney for nearly 4 years and possesses impeccable client service skills and intuitive litigation tactics well beyond her years of practice. Katherine is known for providing collaborative and aggressive representation that fairly balances the sensitive nature and needs of each matter.

Katherine earned her B.A. from Morehead State University and graduated cum laude from the University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law. She is admitted to practice in all Indiana and Kentucky State courts. She focuses her litigation practice in the areas of insurance defense, professional liability – specifically the defense of real estate E&O matters, premises liability, and civil rights – specifically, defense of lawsuits against local governments and police officers. In the past 3 years, Katherine was second chair for 2 civil jury trials. Further, she independently handled, from inception to conclusion, 4 matters that proceeded to trial, 2 were bench trials and 2 were small claims trials. Further, Katherine is an excellent appeals writer and has authored many appellate briefs in the Seventh and Sixth Circuits. Katherine repeatedly has received favorable outcomes for her clients in all of her trial appearances.

Katherine is a member of several legal associations and institutes and being an avid Falconer herself, she is the President of the Indiana Falconer’s Association.